A nail picked up on the A406 can often be repaired. Leave at Neasden for Tesco Extra Brent Park, or at Staples Corner for the retail park, and we measure it against the standard.
Screws, nails and broken glass end up in the nearside lane of the North Circular, carried along by the traffic that crowds towards the Staples Corner and Neasden junctions. A tyre that picks one up loses air slowly, and the warning light may not come on until you are inside the Neasden underpass. Every inch of the A406 is a TfL red route, carriageway and slip roads alike, so keep going gently to the next junction if control is not in doubt.
Once you are parked, the tyre is taken off and checked inside. BS AU 159 lets a puncture be repaired when it measures no more than 6 mm across and falls in the central tread, well clear of either shoulder and the sidewall. A qualifying hole gets a patch-plug fitted from inside; anything else calls for a new tyre. Both prices are explained on the call, so you know where you stand before we begin.
Related help from the same Brent Cross team covers 24 hour tyre service and burst tyre replacement on the A406 North Circular.
Tesco Extra Brent Park and IKEA Wembley sit directly off the Neasden junction, and Staples Corner retail park lies right beside the M1 junction. Underpasses, flyovers and red route kerbs are never used; stuck in lane, call 999 and TfL.
| Road | A406 North Circular Road |
|---|---|
| Operator | Transport for London |
How a mobile puncture repair is done →Puncture repair on the A406 North Circular page
Slow punctures from the A406 often show up in a shopping car park later in the day, at places like Brent Cross Shopping Park or Colindale Retail Park. With the site's permission, we look at the tyre there and repair it to BS AU 159 where the hole allows it; sidewall damage needs a new tyre instead.
Three small jobs make the repair more likely. First, do not squirt sealant into a punctured tyre from the North Circular; it gums up the liner. Second, spot the nail or screw and check its distance from the shoulder. Third, dig out the locking wheel nut key. Then wait off the red route, ideally in Brent Cross Shopping Centre car park, a few streets from our unit, or in a Cricklewood road off the A5.
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Nail in a tyre from the North Circular? Park at Brent Park and call us.
